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D. Eeinmnd Tenni (?) Bishop of Times (?),i an honourable and just 

 man ; may God guard him and deliver him from his enemies. Th& 

 very next day at early dawn I went on board a poor boat in which 

 went altogether eighteen persons,* and during the day, the wind 

 becoming adverse, we were obliged to run free with wind aft, at the 

 mercy of God, and got iinder the lee of the Shetland islands, where 

 we awaited the morning on shore, the boat having been nearly drowned 

 and the mainsail torn. "We having reached land, returned thanks to 

 God for the mercies He had shown us in bringing us there with our 

 lives, and thence two days after, the weather having become favourable 

 we set sail again for Scotland, where we landed in three days, not 

 indeed without having run great danger, the poor boat having made 

 much water. Blessed however be God who delivered us from so many 

 and such severe trials, and conducted us to a land where there was 

 a chance of our faring better. "We had been given to understand 

 that the king of Scotland gave protection to all the Spaniards who 

 reached his kingdom, clothed them and procured them the means of 

 taking ship for Spain, but we found it to be quite the contrary, since 

 we received absolutely no favour from him, and nobody gave us even 

 a real in charity. All those of us who reached this kingdom suffered 

 the extreme of want, and were obliged to remain in it more than six 

 months, actually without covering, just in the state in which we had 

 come from Ireland, the same happened to others of us who arrived 

 from other directions, in search of some improvement in their condition, 

 and of means of returning to Spain. I am even of opinion that the 

 king was then actually won over by agents of the queen of England, 

 to give us up to her, and were it not that there arrived certain 

 Catholic lords and nobles of that kingdom (since therein are many and 

 great gentlemen) who favoured us, and spoke for us to the king in the 

 councils which were held over this matter, we would most certainly 

 have been sold and delivered over to the English, Because in reality 

 the king of Scotland is a mere nobody, having neither the authority 

 nor the style (tallo ?) of a king, and he neither takes a step nor eats 

 a bit, but by the order of the queen (of England), hence have arisen 

 dissensions amongst the lords, and they have no good will for him, 

 and wish to have done with him, and have placed in his stead his 

 Majesty our king, in order that he may re-establish the church of God, 

 so sadly wrecked here. This did they repeat to us many a time, 

 almost moved to tears and longing to see the day in which these things 



1 See note 18, p. 190. 2 See note 19. p. 192. 



